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Psychological time is subjective! Sometimes, an experience seems to have lasted one minute in one situation and ten in another, etc. The time measured will determine by convention the average time and establish admissible proportions in our consciousness; e.g., eighty per- cent of our life is gauged by the standard of psychological time. Curi- ously, we are capable of waking up at exactly six o’clock if we really put our mind to it. This concurrence is designated by the term internal clock. No one has ever seen it, but everyone accepts it. Psychological time is called subjective because it seems imaginary! Yet have we ever wondered how it is possible that something so widely accepted as the imaginary did not exist as such? These are called the soft sciences. It is therefore customary to distinguish between objective time, which is measured, from subjective time, which is perceived. Which one truly constitutes reality? A priori, measurable time appears to be a good candidate, but on second thought it is based on notion, on a con- vention: seconds. An atomic clock merely determines the most extensive conven- tional definition of seconds, not their reality. Here the instrument only serves to illustrate what intellect has not deduced, but a priori induced. Nevertheless, regardless of how exact and stable the latter may be, it is Physical time vs. Psychological time Psychological time is rhythm-based in irregular series To us time is more or less expanded or compressed Physical time is rhythm-based _in regular series “Anatomic clock strictly ‘ticksina conventional way Figure 14 Representation and Reality 719 Physical time vs. Psychological time